CIS4365: Database Applications
Fall, 2017

What is a Database??

A database is a large, logical, integrated collection of data and metadata"

Metadata is data about data.

Data is a non-random collection of symbols.

Information is something that increases our knowledge.

Databases can also be characterized as a way of modeling the 'real-world' .

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What is a Database?

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What is the Definition of a database?

    Answer: A large, logical, integrated collection of data and metadata
 

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